{"id":254931,"date":"2023-08-05T20:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=254931"},"modified":"2023-08-05T20:40:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:10:01","slug":"cabinet-okays-draft-telecom-postal-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-okays-draft-telecom-postal-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet okays draft telecom, postal bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cCabinet okays draft telecom, postal bills\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB on 5th August 2023.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Cabinet has cleared the Draft Indian Telecommunications Bill,2022 and Postal Services Bill,2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Draft Indian Telecommunications Bill,2022?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/draft-indian-telecommunication-bill2022\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Postal Services Bill,2023?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bill seeks to replace the Indian Post Office Act of 1898, which governs the functioning of post offices in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill is aimed at bringing significant reforms in postal services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill seeks to revamp the postal department, especially its parcel services, making them competitive with private players to generate revenue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also seeks to enhance financial services in rural areas through the postal system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance of the bill: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a time the postal department is facing several challenges from private players in the areas of dominance, the proposed new postal bill may help in revitalizing the department as well as its officials in scripting new success stories in the days to come.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCabinet okays draft telecom, postal bills\u201d\u00a0 published in PIB on 5th August 2023.\u00a0 What is the News? The Union Cabinet has cleared the Draft Indian Telecommunications Bill,2022 and Postal Services Bill,2023. What is Draft Indian Telecommunications Bill,2022? Click Here to read What is the Postal Services Bill,2023?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-okays-draft-telecom-postal-bills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cabinet okays draft telecom, postal bills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1731,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-254931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-bill-and-acts","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}